President Donald Trump’s decision to put Mexican immigrants at the top of his enemies list has prompted Mexico to become more active – and more creative – in reaching out to compatriots in the United States to help them remain there or to cushion the shock of deportation. Largely because unauthorized Mexican immigration had been in decline for many years, it rarely made front-page news in Mexico, but since Trump’s rhetoric during last year’s campaign and since winning the presidency there has been no topic more popular in Mexico.

The government of the Dominican Republic has not yet begun massive forced repatriations of the potentially 200,000 Haitians who have failed to comply with its “National Plan for Regularization of Foreigners,” but its plans to conduct sweeps for undocumented persons and put them in processing centers are already causing fear.

Guatemalan nationals exit a plane and head for the Migration Office in Guatemala City’s La Aurora Airport after having been deported from the United States. Each week, fourteen flights arrive at La Aurora Airport from the U.S. carrying approximately 135 deportees per airplane. According to the Guatemalan General Board of Migration, the United States has deported 33,783 Guatemalan nationals between January 1st and August 31st, 2013. These numbers display a sharp increase from the previous year of 2012 when the number of deportees for the same period was a then-record 27,999.

Genenis Yamileht, 20, from El Salvador, spends a night at the Hermanos en el Camino immigrant shelter on August 5, 2013 in Ixtepec, Mexico. She said she planned to ride a freight train north with her husband the next night as part of their journey to the U.S. border and eventually to Houston, Texas. She hopes to get employment as a domestic worker. Thousands of Central American migrants ride atop the trains, known as 'la bestia', or the beast, during their long and perilous journey through Mexico.

Guatemala’s attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz, is on a mission. Just two years on the job and she has already confronted some of her country’s most powerful and feared men: drug bosses, corrupt officials and a former dictator charged with genocide.